Eve Teasing Research Paper

About a month ago, my family friend Riya told me about an incident which happened to her at my hometown Sikar. While returning from college she was walking alone on the road, suddenly a motorcycle passed by her and she felt a wrong touch- somebody’s hand on her back. She noted the number plate information which helped to identify the person, next day she reached at his home with her friends and told his parents about the incident to teach him a lesson. Though the person learnt his lesson – the incident left behind a scar in our minds.
Unfortunately, this is the story of many innocent girls who are abused, harassed or teased at least once in their life. Eve teasing is an expression that is ubiquitous in south Asia and which refers to sexual harassment of women in public places. Eve-teasing is probably the most common act of public violence against women which includes making vulgar comments, indecent proposals, unwelcome gestures with hands, legs, fingers or other organs, attempting to make physical contact etc.
What causes eve-teasing? According to a study of International Journal of Education and Psychological Research, the main reasons of increasing trend in eve-teasing are lack of strict punishment of offenders, lack of respect to women, negative influence of media,

After the eve-teasing incident with Riya, the first thing she said was ‘It is very unfortunate to born as a girl in a society like ours.’ They are stopped from attending college, visiting a market or travelling alone and even receiving phone calls just because they are girls. The results found in a study done by Weisfeld-Adams tells that all parents are concerned about their daughters’ safety and seeing their daughter’s safety under threat, they prefer to stop the education of their girls and find early marriage as a safe approach to protect their girl. By this way, many younger girls’ bright future ends up with the marriage at early stage of